cowie165

Or here

http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=20165

Big F thanks for those links. The mechaskunk link was great! Short and sweet, with great pictures!

Cheers

Cowie, you'd better have a good explanation for why you have future and I don't!!

Berttt

By the way Berttt, all the rumours are true - Future is awesome. On Swanny's recommendation I've used Johnsons ShineMagic and Pledge OneGo, and they really are the unattractive cousins The results from Future are in a class of their own.

Do it.

Do it.

A cool diorama would be the Macross punching through a Star Wars battle ship or crushing a Star Trek ship.

Seeing the SDF-1 stomping an Enterprise would be soooooo funny. You could then display it at the next Trekkie convention and aggravate all the fanboys

I have NEVER had to thin Future. If its too thick it means you left the bottle open.

HWR have you tried thinning it? Just wondering, as I never thinned it but once I started doing so I was able to produce a more uniform finish. Could be placebo effect though - must swap back next model.

Cowie, you'd better have a good explanation for why you have future and I don't!!

Who's your supplier? That stuff is rare as hens teeth in Aus.

Cheers,

Berttt

Being mates with a 37SQN flight engineer helps Two bottles at AU$10 a piece, giddyup. He *may* have some left (he bought a case). Hey if you shoot over a reminder email tomorrow I'll give him a call and see if I can grab a bottle or two for you. Failing that, I could mail my spare up your way

As an aside, I saw some dude on eBay.au selling Future at AU$27 per bottle! Ouch. Big markup but still cheaper than buying cans.

Cowie

JFG you gotta finish your 1/48 dio first! updateorban

I have to agree with Chas! Great product, with such a lovely scent

If required, try thinning with Windex and a drop or two of dishwashing liquid.

No, I'm not joking.

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Combat-Robots_W0QQi...1QQcmdZViewItem

Bushy here's some local 1/170

Cheeeeeeap

Sorry, one of those scans is a little on the nose - slight movement during the pass.

Guys I have mailed you both. I don't have a photobucket account.

Please enable your junk filters to accept incoming from domain 'exemail.com.au' as the attachments are in jpeg format.

Cheers

Mark

Hi Grebo

Dude the box is slightly longer than A4 but here's what I could fit onto my scanner. 300dpi as requested.

edit: can't seem to upload, server doesn't like it. If you PM me your email address I can send the file over. It is 0.89Mb.

Mark

How do you guys find this stuff!? Wow.

Did anyone else see Optimus Prime making a guest appearance on the Macross?

Retppu's 1/72 VF-11 soft vinyl kit.

Tamiya's 1/35 Tiger I with all the photo-etched parts, zimmerit coating and ModelKasten tracks, although have not started on the tracks. The thought of this task has been good enough to keep the project incomplete for 6 months now.

It's akin to 'analysis paralysis', right? You buy nice fruit to go with a nice kit but don't start because you want to be sure you do a great job... and that won't happen unless you are already skilled or do lots of practice...!?

Hi mate. I know your southern hemisphere pain.

I've found 1/100 has almost no following, so I wouldn't hold my breath for many recommendations on 1/170 kits. Seems the 1/72 gear is just too damn attractive these days

As an aside, buying Macross gear from the US isn't too bad. You can have two kits shipped for around US$15 or just buy new 1/72 from HLJ for even cheaper. There are also guys around that can help you out with Yahoo Japan, but I'd save that for rare stuff you just HAVE to have.

And welcome to MW!

Mark

You sure they weren't referring to 'torrent'? In an internet-related context?

the AT/ST fits in around 1/48, the shutle is suggested aroind 1/72 and the y-wing is1/96-1/100 scale.

Brilliant! Thank you mate.

Does anyone know what scales the MPC AT-ST, Y-Wing and Shuttle are please? I've heard the Y-Wing is around 1/100(ish)?

Mark

Cool, thanks Thor! I think I'll put the swimsuit Minmay in amongst my 1/24 car collection!

As far as fixing the purple, I think I'll just paint over the existing mess and go from there It has all been sealed by clear laquer anyway.

Kylwell, thanks for the info. I have a FM X-Wing in the closet and a lot of 5 MPC kits inbound from TN (thanks eBay). Looking forward to their arrival.

Good to know, thanks! I'm only just learning what SW kits are available - the common brands are AMT/ERTL and MPC, right? MPC is usually preferred?

And it is very surprising to hear you'll be removing detail! Very unusual. I guess too much detail is distracting from the finished piece?

Mark

I forgot to add, the hair will be finished lighter. The forest green is more of a base to be followed by drybrushed park green.

Ok here's a few Wehrmacht soldiers I'm about to insert into my first diorama. It's a 1/72 WW2 setup. I'll probably post a few pics when I'm done. The kits are done, just need to finish the MDF base.

In progress:

Millia figure from the 15th anniversary Bandai 1/100 kits. Not sure on the scale but the figure is 2 3/4 inches tall. Things were going well until I decided the purple was too dark and tried to lighten the colour. This was complicated by all the masks being removed just before I noted the colour difference. My attempt to lighten (dodgy light spray of white) faired poorly and now the surface is speckled. Ouch.

I'm hoping that a light purple wash plus some purple pastel will rectify most of the hiccup

There are still a few more spots to tidy up with the paint brush (in case you notice things like the touchup required on the right bicep/shoulder line). I'm about 60% done on the figure.

Mark

What were the ERTL proportion issues? Too high/thick or something like that? Or inconsistent side panel height?

SOLD!

Thank you Sir.

Thanks ghostryder. For reference, which colours are used in your avatar?